Chair-seat



(Model.)

I. D. COMSTOGK.

CHAIR SEAT. No. 270,748. VPazented Jan.16,1'883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAA D. COMSTOCK, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN.

CHAIR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,748, dated January 16, 1823.

Application filed March 4, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ISAAC D. OoMsTOCK, of Adrian, inthe county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Chair-Seats; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ot' this specification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of chair bottoms or backs of that class in which the seats and backs are constructed of interwoven cane.

The object of the invention is to produce a better effect than that produced by the ordinary mode ot' weaving cane, wherein the cane is carried entirely around the top and bottom of the seat, and with less cane.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the rounds, and in the manner of weaving the cane around and securing it to the same, as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, 4Figure l represents a portion of the chair-seat with the ends of the canes turned hack to show the kinks, and Fig. 2 a modification.

A designates portions of the chair-legs, and B grooved rounds secured thereto, forming a square frame, commonly known as the seatframe.7 The grooves a in the rounds B extend the entire length of said rounds, and are preferably, for convenience in weaving the cane,

y made upon the outerf'faces of the rounds, al though they may be made at any other point.

These grooves are of about the same width as the canes to be used.

C represents the canes, which are woven around and secured to the rounds in the following manner:

One end of a single cane is inserted, face inward into the chairleg in the groove of the round, and the cane is then twisted to forma kink and to bring its face to the outside, and is then passed once around the round to press and keep the twisted or kinked portion into the groove in the round. The cane is then carried to the opposite round, and over and around the same until the groove is reached the second time, when the cane is turned back upon itself, with both ends uppermost to form a kink or loop, as shown at a. in Fig. 1 of the drawings. This kink is pressed into the groove, and one half of it is forced under the bend last made in the cane, and the cane is then passed inward and downward entirely around the round and over the other half of the kink,and from thence to the opposite round, where the same operation is repeated,and is repeated backward and forward until the frame is filled, when the weaving is commenced at right angles to the cane tirst woven. When the end of a cane is reached it is given only a half twist or kink, and the end is turned down into the groove for an inch, more or less, and is held therein by the next succeeding cane, whose end is introduced under the woven canes in the groove in the same manner in-which the end of the iirst cane was introduced into the leg.

In Fig. 2 I show a modified form of weaving` the cane, in which the cane is passed from the inside ot" the round, under a strip, b, fitting loosely in the groove in said round, back upon itself over the strip b, and then down and entirely around the round, so as to press and hold the strip and the doubled portion of the cane around it into the groove. In this form of weaving the cane it is, however, necessary to give a twist in the cane under the round, in order to bring the face of the cane upward on the exposed surface.`

In the ordinary manner of weaving cane where'th'e canes are passed around the frameround the cane passes from round to round on the bottom or rear side, 'as well as the top or face, and where the end of a cane comes upon the top or face the operator must necessarily cut oit' the end so as to effect the splice with the next cane under the chair.

In my invention theweavingis done entirely upon the exposed side of the frame, and the ends are secured in the rounds, avoiding the necessity of knotting or splicing,`an`d saving nearly all of the cane heretofore on the rear or 'bottom of the frame.

It will also be seen that in my invention only a single cane is handled at a time, said cane running back and forth across the frame until itis entirely used up.

I am aware that it is not new to so wind cane around a frame as to produce close weaving ICO Q spor/4s without passing from side to side on both the 2. The combination, with a frame having toprand bottom of the frame, and I do not frrooved rounds, of canes passed across the broadly claim such invention. frame from round to round, bent at the grooves What I claim isin the rounds to form loops or kinks to flt in I5 5 l. The combination,witl1 the rounds B, liavsaid grooves, and passed back around said inglongitudinalgroovesand forming tile frame kinks or loops to secure them in place, vsubot' a seat or back, of canes passed from round stantially as described. to round and doubled to lit; into the grooves, ISAAC D. COMS'IOGK. and lneans, substantially as described, for sc- Witnesses: 1o curing the looped port-ions of the canes in said H. S. SPRAGUE,

grooves, substantially as described. CHARLES J. HUNT. 

